«L’allenamento motorio migliora la comprensione di testi in cui compaiono verbi d’azione» for Qui Uniud, Italy

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It is an advance of Argentine scientists; it is a linguistic test based on reading a story with a high number of movement verbs; it has 84% success in the classification of patients without cognitive impairment.

«The collaboration with Buenos Aires was born almost by chance,» says Trevisan. The experiment that we were organizing in Sydney predicted that the children moved a lot, two hours during nine consecutive days, and from there arose the idea of involving Adolfo M. García, who runs the Buenos Aires Laboratory and studied the relationship for many years. between the movement of the body and the action verbs. Now it is a fact recognized by the scientific community that movement verbs are processed by the same areas of the brain that also process the movements of the body. »

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Adolescence: for scientists, now lasts from 10 to 24 years

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The independence of parents, access to work and paternity are postponed; An editorial in the journal Lancet Child and Adolescent Health states that this age is more in line with current reality.

«There are multiple conceptions of adolescence, some more biological, others more sociological, others more psychological,» emphasizes Adolfo García, scientific director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN) of the Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (Incyt, Conicet, Ineco and the Favaloro Foundation) – depending on which perspective is adopted, a more or less extensive cut-off point can be based.In the second decade of life there are genetic, hormonal, neuroanatomical, neurofunctional and sociocultural changes that influence each other to give rise to to cognitive and behavioral patterns that rarely manifest in previous and subsequent stages. »

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El impacto de las tecnologías en la memoria

La capacidad de absorción de datos siempre fue un bien admirado, preciado y considerado popularmente como fuente de inteligencia. Aunque, “el estatus del conocimiento cambió. No necesitamos acumularlo, sino saber cómo acceder a los datos necesarios, cómo gestionarlos, ordenarlos y aplicarlos. Pero es sólo el primer paso. Cada vez más, ni siquiera vamos a tener que encargarnos de encontrar el tipo de información que nos interesa, porque la inteligencia artificial se va a encargar de todo”, adelanta Agustín Ibáñez, director del Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional e investigador de la universidad Adolfo Ibánez.

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Superancianos: La nueva tendencia en adultos mayores

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Los “superancianos” se han convertido en estudio de investigaciones internacionales, que se constituyen como un grupo de adultos mayores cuya memoria y atención se resisten al envejecimiento. Las razones de este fenómeno indican un esfuerzo intelectual y de actividad física, pero también influyen múltiples procesos genéticos, cognitivos y de estilo de vida que protegen a las personas del envejecimiento patológico y eventualmente una combinación de varios de ellos puede impactar positivamente.

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Researchers develop a rapid, accurate and economic test to detect Parkinson’s in early stages

It is an advance of Argentine scientists; it is a linguistic test based on reading a story with a high number of movement verbs; it has 84% success in the classification of patients without cognitive impairment.


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Googlealizados nota en revista Nueva

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Las nuevas tecnologías se entrometen en el devenir diario con nuestra total aprobación. “Así, impactan en los procesos conscientes e inconscientes, en la inteligencia, el aprendizaje, la memoria, la comprensión, el conocimiento, las emociones, la creatividad, la intuición, el lenguaje y la cognición social”, dice Agustín Ibáñez, director del Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional (INCyT) e investigador de la Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, de Chile. Y aquí se cuela lo que algunos neurocientíficos destacados –como Andy Clark– denominan “mente extendida”: nuestro universo mental se expande naturalmente con los desarrollos tecnológicos. “Desde el punto de vista cognitivo, las tecnologías incrementan los alcances de nuestros procesos mentales hasta límites insospechados. Hoy por hoy, podemos recordar, saber, conocer, comunicar e interaccionar mucho más que sin ellas. Pero, tal vez, la pregunta que más preocupe sea hasta qué punto eso no se produce reduciendo, distorsionando y minimizando procesos mentales internos y de interacción que alguna vez fueron fundamentales para el aprendizaje y la cognición humana”, advierte Ibáñez.

 

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Envy and pleasure from the suffering of others may be early markers of a type of dementia

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Empathy (that is, the ability to perceive what another feels) is the basis of solidarity and one of the livelihoods that holds together human groups. We tend to believe that prosocial nature is dominant in healthy individuals. However, studies by Argentine researchers suggest that the opposite may also be true. In these works, they show that there are two human emotions that are not at all cooperative and yet are universal: envy and enjoyment by the suffering of others (known by its German name, Schadenfreude, for example, when one has a boss who mistreats him or does not value him, and suddenly stumbles and falls, or the AFIP detects a monumental debt, but instead of feeling sorry, he is happy).

Scientists not only analyzed them in 40 situations, and in their crosses with morality and legality, but also discovered that they can be useful markers for estimating the evolution of frontotemporal dementia. The investigations are published in journals JNNP (doi: 10.1136 / jnnp-2017-316055) and Brain (doi: 10.1093 / brain / awx269)

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What we talk about when we talk about tango brain?

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«Tango has peculiar characteristics since, for example, it requires tuning and coordination in space-time in close proximity to another body.» To read the complete note click HERE

BID and INECO will study the conduct to develop public policies

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The Inter-American Development Bank (BID) and the INECO Foundation developed the first Latin American Network of Human Behavior and Public Policies, which seeks to go from the private to the general, understanding how we think and act to conform standards and public policies that are appropriate for community.


 

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